| Title | Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill |
| Call Number | NS-196 |
| Summary | William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody and Hunkpapa Sioux Chief Sitting Bull pose for a full-length studio portrait. Sitting Bull wears a long, feather headdress and a buckskin shirt. Cody wears a wide-brimmed, Stetson hat, a shirt embroidered with flowers and thigh boots. The two men hold the end of one rifle propped on its end in front of them. Cody holds his right hand up pointing at something they are both looking toward. A landscape scene is painted on the backdrop behind the two men. Sitting Bull appeared in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in 1885 and was well received by crowds in Canada. Image is a copy of original photograph by W. Notman in Montreal in 1885 and later copyrighted by D.F. Barry. |
| Date | [1897?] |
| Collection | Salsbury collection, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show |
| Notes | Title typed on photoprint. |
| Vintage photographic print. | |
| "May 13, 1897 Mr. Nate Salsbury compliments D.F. Barry" signed on back of print; words "Foes in '76, Friends in '85 Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill - Given by the family of Nate Salsbury from his collection, in 1938" handwritten on back of print. | |
| "T5770" and "H4486-32-30" penciled on back of print. | |
| See also "NS-39" and "NS-104." | |
| Photo Materials | 1 photoprint ; on mat 17 x 11 cm. (6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.) |
| Copyright | Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library. |
| See Also | Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917. |
| Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890. | |
| Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. | |
| Wild west shows 1880-1920. | |
| Salsbury, Nate, 1846-1902. | |
| Imaged. | |
| Photographic prints. | |
| Portrait photographs. | |
| URL | http://gowest.coalliance.org/cgi-bin/imager?00105196+NS-196 |